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''‘Once a priest, always a priest; once a mason, always a mason; but once a journalist, always and forever a journalist.’'' | ''‘Once a priest, always a priest; once a mason, always a mason; but once a journalist, always and forever a journalist.’'' | ||
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Freemason Rudyard Kipling, A Matter of Fact, Many Inventions, 1893 | Freemason Rudyard Kipling, A Matter of Fact, Many Inventions, 1893 | ||
| − | There is a Masonic lodge which still meets in London called the Authors’ Lodge No. 3456, which, when founded in November 1910, received letters of goodwill from ‘Brothers’ Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Henry Rider Haggard, Rudyard Kipling, and Jerome K. Jerome. [[Rudyard Kipling]], had been initiated into Freemasonry in the Hope and Perseverance Lodge No. 782, based in Lahore, India, in 1886, and went on to become an honorary member of the Authors’ Lodge. The lodge had a direct connection to the London based Authors’ Club, which had been founded in 1891, being constituted by the Masonic members of the Authors’ Club, founders such as Max Montesole and A.F. Calvert, who had famously discovered an early Masonic Catechism dating from the early eighteenth century, which he eventually sold to Masonic historian Douglas Knoop. The consecration of the Authors’ Lodge reveals the intricate relationships between certain gentlemen’s clubs and Freemasonry; the founding of the lodge being seen as not only a way of promoting the Authors’ Club amongst Freemasons, but also providing a means of promoting Freemasonry within the club, attracting literary men into the Craft ‘could not fail to add lustre to the Order.’ | + | There is a Masonic lodge which still meets in London called the Authors’ Lodge No. 3456, which, when founded in November 1910, received letters of goodwill from ‘Brothers’ Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Henry Rider Haggard, [[Rudyard Kipling]], and Jerome K. Jerome. [[Rudyard Kipling]], had been initiated into Freemasonry in the Hope and Perseverance Lodge No. 782, based in Lahore, India, in 1886, and went on to become an honorary member of the Authors’ Lodge. The lodge had a direct connection to the London based Authors’ Club, which had been founded in 1891, being constituted by the Masonic members of the Authors’ Club, founders such as Max Montesole and A.F. Calvert, who had famously discovered an early Masonic Catechism dating from the early eighteenth century, which he eventually sold to Masonic historian Douglas Knoop. The consecration of the Authors’ Lodge reveals the intricate relationships between certain gentlemen’s clubs and Freemasonry; the founding of the lodge being seen as not only a way of promoting the Authors’ Club amongst Freemasons, but also providing a means of promoting Freemasonry within the club, attracting literary men into the Craft ‘could not fail to add lustre to the Order.’ |
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Kipling and [[Rider Haggard]] were very close friends, and they both famously conveyed Freemasonry in their work. Indeed, Masonic themes can be seen in Rider Haggard’s late Victorian works King Solomon’s Mines and the wonderfully exotic novel She, a story which deals with death and re-birth. Both of these works present the idea of the heroic explorer searching lost civilisations for hidden knowledge and, along with Kipling’s The Man Who Would Be King, testify not only to the popularity of Freemasonry at the time, but also the acceptance of the Craft in Victorian society, which, within these literary contexts also conveyed an element of mystery and the occult. Rider Haggard was also a close friend of Egyptologist and occultist Ernest A. Wallis Budge, both of them, along with Kipling, being celebrated members of the literary Savile Club. | Kipling and [[Rider Haggard]] were very close friends, and they both famously conveyed Freemasonry in their work. Indeed, Masonic themes can be seen in Rider Haggard’s late Victorian works King Solomon’s Mines and the wonderfully exotic novel She, a story which deals with death and re-birth. Both of these works present the idea of the heroic explorer searching lost civilisations for hidden knowledge and, along with Kipling’s The Man Who Would Be King, testify not only to the popularity of Freemasonry at the time, but also the acceptance of the Craft in Victorian society, which, within these literary contexts also conveyed an element of mystery and the occult. Rider Haggard was also a close friend of Egyptologist and occultist Ernest A. Wallis Budge, both of them, along with Kipling, being celebrated members of the literary Savile Club. | ||
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Conan Doyle, Kipling, Rider Haggard, Jerome K Jerome and the The Authors’ Lodge
by Dr. David Harrison
‘Once a priest, always a priest; once a mason, always a mason; but once a journalist, always and forever a journalist.’
Freemason Rudyard Kipling, A Matter of Fact, Many Inventions, 1893
There is a Masonic lodge which still meets in London called the Authors’ Lodge No. 3456, which, when founded in November 1910, received letters of goodwill from ‘Brothers’ Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Henry Rider Haggard, Rudyard Kipling, and Jerome K. Jerome. Rudyard Kipling, had been initiated into Freemasonry in the Hope and Perseverance Lodge No. 782, based in Lahore, India, in 1886, and went on to become an honorary member of the Authors’ Lodge. The lodge had a direct connection to the London based Authors’ Club, which had been founded in 1891, being constituted by the Masonic members of the Authors’ Club, founders such as Max Montesole and A.F. Calvert, who had famously discovered an early Masonic Catechism dating from the early eighteenth century, which he eventually sold to Masonic historian Douglas Knoop. The consecration of the Authors’ Lodge reveals the intricate relationships between certain gentlemen’s clubs and Freemasonry; the founding of the lodge being seen as not only a way of promoting the Authors’ Club amongst Freemasons, but also providing a means of promoting Freemasonry within the club, attracting literary men into the Craft ‘could not fail to add lustre to the Order.’
Kipling and Rider Haggard were very close friends, and they both famously conveyed Freemasonry in their work. Indeed, Masonic themes can be seen in Rider Haggard’s late Victorian works King Solomon’s Mines and the wonderfully exotic novel She, a story which deals with death and re-birth. Both of these works present the idea of the heroic explorer searching lost civilisations for hidden knowledge and, along with Kipling’s The Man Who Would Be King, testify not only to the popularity of Freemasonry at the time, but also the acceptance of the Craft in Victorian society, which, within these literary contexts also conveyed an element of mystery and the occult. Rider Haggard was also a close friend of Egyptologist and occultist Ernest A. Wallis Budge, both of them, along with Kipling, being celebrated members of the literary Savile Club.
